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Quantification of Tendon Excursion Through Kinematic Analysis of Typing Movements on Alternative Keyboard Layouts
Conference Proceedings Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics Stanford University Stanford, California 24-26 August 1995 QUANTIFICATION OF TENDON EXCURSION THROUGH KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF TYPING MOVEMENTS ON ALTERNATIVE KEYBOARD LAYOUTS M.M Flannery1, R.N. Robertson2,3, R.A Cooper2,3 1Biomedical Engineering Department California State University, Sacramento95819 2Division of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Medical…
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The Costs of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
The QWERTY keyboard layout dates from 1873, the same as the barbed wire patents which tamed the American west. A paper from the publication Hand, compared the costs of wrists crippled from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. In the past, treatments were divided between two options, surgery, or non surgery. In 2006, there were 577,000 carpal tunnel…